Less than a month to go...

Greetings, and welcome to one view of the 2008 WritersUA conference on software User Assistance, this year in Portland, OR. For those of you unable to attend this year (and we do miss you!), my plans are to post to this blog during the conference, wireless network permitting.

I've attended every WritersUA (formerly WinWriters) conference, I'm responsible for publishing the daily conference newsletter, and way back when, I worked at WinWriters, so I think I have a pretty good eye for what's interesting, what's useful, and what's just plain fun.

I'll be posting breaking news, summaries of interesting sessions, and odds and ends I may encounter during the 4 days. I'll also post, as I can, photos, many of folks you may know or work with, because I can put more photos on here than I can fit in a two-page newsletter, and I'll have hundreds of photos overall before we wrap things up Wednesday evening.

I hope to see many folks at the conference this year, but if I don't, I hope you'll keep this in mind for 2009 and beyond. I try not to bee (too) biased, but I do believe that this is one of the premier conferences in the field, with top-notch presenters and bleeding-edge topics, useful for both beginners and experts and everyone in between.

And if you will be in Portland, come up and say "hi." I'm the one with the big digital SLR.